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Richard Elliott Friedman, is the Ann and Jay Davis Professor of Jewish Studies. He was a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge and Oxford and a Senior Fellow at the American Schools of Oriental Research in Jerusalem, and he participated in the City of David Project archaeological excavations of biblical Jerusalem. He is also Katzin Professor of Jewish Civilization Emeritus of the University of California, San Diego.
Dr. Friedman earned his Th.D. and Th.M. at Harvard in Hebrew Bible and Near
Eastern Languages and Civilizations; M.H.L. at the Jewish Theological Seminary;
and B.A. at the University of Miami. He works in Akkadian, Aramaic, Greek,
Hebrew, Latin, Ugaritic, French, and German. He was an American Council
of Learned Societies Fellow and was president of the Biblical Colloquium
West.
He is the author of The Exile and Biblical Narrative (Harvard Semitic Monographs);
Who Wrote the Bible? (Simon and Schuster); The Disappearance of God (Little,
Brown); The Hidden Face of God (HarperCollins); The Hidden Book in the Bible
(HarperCollins); Commentary on the Torah (HarperCollins); and The Bible
with Sources Revealed (HarperCollins). He is editor of The Creation of Sacred
Literature (University of California Press); The Poet and the Historian
(Harvard Semitic Studies); The Future of Biblical Studies: The Hebrew Scriptures
(Scholars Press); and LeDavid Maskil (Eisenbrauns). His books have been
translated into Hebrew, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Polish, Hungarian,
Dutch, Portuguese, Czech, Turkish, and French.
He has been interviewed by CNN’s Larry King and on NPR’s “All
Things Considered” and “Morning Edition” and “Radio
Times” and “Talk of the Nation.” Articles and citations
of his work have appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New
York Times, Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, Time, Newsweek,
and other print media. He was a consultant for the Dreamworks film “The
Prince of Egypt,” for NBC “The Eternal Light,” for A&E
“Mysteries of the Bible,” and for A&E “Who Wrote the
Bible?,” for PBS “Nova: The People of the Covenant: The Origins
of Ancient Israel and the Emergence of Judaism,” for European television's
ARTE “The Bible Revealed,” and for PBS “The Kingdom of
David.”
Professor Friedman teaches courses in Hebrew, Bible, and Jewish Studies. Contact him at rfriedma@uga.edu.
The appointment of such a prestigious scholar as Dr. Richard Elliott Friedman
was made possible by a very generous gift from Mr. and Mrs. Jay and Ann
Davis of Atlanta. Mr. Davis is a trustee of the University of Georgia Foundation
and is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of National Distributing Company,
Inc. The Davises, who are graduates of the University of Georgia, are nationally
known leaders in Jewish education and are the founders of The Alfred and
Adele Davis Academy, an accredited Reform Jewish Day School in Atlanta.